Abstract: We present Ks -band light curves for 299 Cepheids in the Small Magellanic
Cloud (SMC) of which 288 are new discoveries that we have identified using
multi-epoch near-infrared photometry obtained by the VISTA survey of the
Magellanic Clouds system (VMC). The new Cepheids have periods in the range from
0.34 to 9.1 days and cover the magnitude interval 12.9 <= Ks <= 17.6 mag. Our
method was developed using variable stars previously identified by the optical
microlensing survey OGLE. We focus on searching new Cepheids in external
regions of the SMC for which complete VMC Ks-band observations are available
and no comprehensive identification of different types of variable stars from
other surveys exists yet.